Excerpts and quotes partially written on the painting:

"Everything flows; nothing remains.

One cannot step twice into the same river.

Change alone is unchanging." Herakleitos, 5th century BC trans. by Guy Davenport

"…change, while it imports dissolution, involves at the same time the rise of a new life - […] while death is the issue of life, life is also the issue of death. This is a grand conception; one which the Oriental thinkers attained, and which is perhaps the highest in their metaphysics." Hegel, Philosophy of History, Introduction (p. 187)

"Merely quantitative differences beyond a certain point pass into qualitative changes." Hegel, Logic (quoted by F. Engels, quoting Marx, in Anti-Duhring

"For dialectical philosophy nothing is final, absolute, sacred. It reveals the transitory character of everything and in everything; nothing can endure before it except the uninterrupted process of becoming and of passing away." F. Engels, The End of Classical German Philosophy